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Frontend Performance Quiz Practice
Active Recall Drill Session
← Exit Session
Question 1 of 1
medium
Frontend Performance
What underlying browser mechanism does next/image's preload prop actually generate?
A
A custom JavaScript polling mechanism
B
A real <link rel="preload" as="image"> tag inserted into the document head — the same mechanism demonstrated with hand-written HTML in the network-optimization topic
C
A WebSocket connection to pre-fetch the image
D
It has no effect on the actual HTML output
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